Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
New American Standard Bible
As
So let the
King James Version
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
Holman Bible
so You blow them away.
As wax melts before the fire,
so the wicked are destroyed before God.
International Standard Version
As smoke is driven away, so you drive them away. As wax melts in the presence of fire, so the wicked die in the presence of God.
A Conservative Version
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
American Standard Version
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: As wax melteth before the fire, So let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
Amplified
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away;
As wax melts before the fire,
So let the wicked and guilty perish before [the presence of] God.
Bible in Basic English
Let them be like smoke before the driving wind; as wax turning soft before the fire, so let them come to an end before the power of God.
Darby Translation
As smoke is driven, thou wilt drive them away; as wax melteth before the fire, the wicked shall perish at the presence of God.
Julia Smith Translation
As smoke being dispersed thou wilt disperse: as wax melting from the face of fire, the unjust shall perish from the face of God.
King James 2000
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
Lexham Expanded Bible
As smoke is driven off, you will drive [them] off. As wax melts before fire, [the] wicked will perish before God.
Modern King James verseion
As smoke is driven away, You drive them away; as wax melts before the fire, let the wicked perish in the presence of God.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Like as the smoke vanisheth, so shalt thou drive them away; and like as wax melteth at the fire, so shall the ungodly perish at the presence of God.
NET Bible
As smoke is driven away by the wind, so you drive them away. As wax melts before fire, so the wicked are destroyed before God.
The Emphasized Bible
As smoke is driven about, Let them be driven about, - As wax is melted before a fire, Let the lawless perish before God.
Webster
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
World English Bible
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
Youngs Literal Translation
As the driving away of smoke Thou drivest away, As the melting of wax before fire, The wicked perish at the presence of God.
Themes
Fire » Characterized as » Melting
divine Presence » A terror to sinners a comfort to saints » A terror to evil does
Topics
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 68:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Majestic Power
1 Let God arise. Let his enemies be scattered. Let them who hate him also flee before him. 2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God. 3 But let the righteous be glad. Let them rejoice before God. Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.
Cross References
Psalm 37:20
But the wicked shall perish. The enemies of the LORD shall be like the beauty of the fields. They will vanish?vanish like smoke.
Micah 1:4
The mountains melt under him, and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like waters that are poured down a steep place.
Psalm 97:5
The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
Isaiah 9:18
For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
Hosea 13:3
Therefore they will be like the morning mist, and like the dew that passes away early, like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and like the smoke out of the chimney.
Psalm 80:16
It's burned with fire. It's cut down. They perish at your rebuke.
Psalm 22:14
I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me.
Psalm 76:7
You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?
Isaiah 64:2
as when fire kindles the brushwood, and the fire causes the waters to boil; to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence.
Nahum 1:5-6
The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it.
2 Thessalonians 1:8-9
giving vengeance to those who do not know God, and to those who do not obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,
Revelation 6:16-17
They told the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,